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The document discusses binomial distribution problems involving calculating probabilities of outcomes when experiments have two possible outcomes (success/failure) and a fixed number of trials. Some examples include: 1) Finding the probability of getting exactly 2, at least 4, or at most 2 heads when tossing a coin 5 times. 2) Finding the probability of exactly 7 out of 10 new IT business startups generating a profit in their first year, given the probability of success is 80%. 3) Calculating the probability a basketball team wins 3 games in a 5-game series, assuming they have a 75% chance of winning each game. The document contains 14 such probability calculation problems involving binomial distributions with different numbers of

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The document discusses binomial distribution problems involving calculating probabilities of outcomes when experiments have two possible outcomes (success/failure) and a fixed number of trials. Some examples include: 1) Finding the probability of getting exactly 2, at least 4, or at most 2 heads when tossing a coin 5 times. 2) Finding the probability of exactly 7 out of 10 new IT business startups generating a profit in their first year, given the probability of success is 80%. 3) Calculating the probability a basketball team wins 3 games in a 5-game series, assuming they have a 75% chance of winning each game. The document contains 14 such probability calculation problems involving binomial distributions with different numbers of

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Binomial Distribution

1. If a coin is tossed 5 times, find the probability of: (a) Exactly 2 heads, (b) At least 4 heads, (c)
Getting at most 2 heads.
2. Let’s say that 80% of all business startups in the IT industry report that they generate a profit in
their first year. If a sample of 10 new IT business startups is selected, find the probability that
exactly seven will generate a profit in their first year.
3. Your basketball team is playing a series of 5 games against your opponent. The winner is those
who win more games (out of 5). Let assume that your team is much more skilled and has 75%
chances of winning. What is the probability of your team get 3 wins?
4. A box of candies has many different colors in it. There is a 15% chance of getting a pink candy.
What is the probability that exactly 4 candies in a box are pink out of 10?
5. On average, every one out of 10 telephones is found busy. Six telephone numbers are selected
at random. Find the probability that four of them will be busy.
6. There are four fused bulbs in a lot of 10 good bulbs. If three bulbs are drawn at random with
replacement, find the probability of distribution of the number of fused bulbs drawn.
7. An unbiased dice is thrown until three sixes are obtained. Find the probability of obtaining the
third six in the sixth throw.
8. A bag contains 5 green balls and 3 red balls. If two balls are drawn from the bag randomly with
replacement, find the probability distribution of the number of green balls drawn.
9. Find the probability distribution of getting the number of fours in three throws of a dice. Also,
find the mean and variance of the distribution.
10. A factory produces tools of which 98% are in good working order. Samples of 1000 tools are
selected at random and tested.
a) Find the mean and give it a practical interpretation.
b) Find the standard deviation of the number of tools in good working order in these samples.
11. A multiple choice test has 20 questions. Each question has four possible answers with one
correct answer per question. What is the probability that a student will answer 10 or more
questions correct (to pass) by guessing randomly?
12. 80% of the people in a city have a home insurance with "MyInsurance" company.
a) If 10 people are selected at random from this city, what is the probability that at least 8 of
them have a home insurance with "MyInsurance"?
b) If 500 people are selected at random, how many are expected to have a home insurance with
"MyInsurance"?
13. According to an OCDE report (https://data.oecd.org/eduatt/population-with-tertiary-
education.htm); for the age group between 25 and 34 years, 61.8% in Canada and 50.8% in the
United Kingdom have a tertiary education.
14. If 200,000 people, in the age between 25 and 34 years, are selected at random in Canada and
200,000 in the same age group are selected at random in the United kingdom, how many are
expected to have tertiary education in each of these two countries?

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